While the world might see addiction as a series of destructive choices, those battling substance use know it's often a desperate attempt to numb wounds that have never fully healed. These emotional ...

To detect wound complications as soon as they happen, researchers have invented a battery-free “smart suture” that can wirelessly sense and transmit information about wounds from deep surgical sites.

We all carry the echoes of our upbringing, the whispers that linger long after the lights have gone out. When your parents are your biggest critics, it’s like living with a perpetual voiceover ...

Uncontrolled hemorrhage (bleeding out) is responsible for 80 percent of combat deaths. About the same proportion of those who die after being evacuated to a medical treatment facility also die of ...

WATERBURY — Waterbury Hospital physicians have been using a new treatment for deep, chronic wounds in patients — their own skin. The new procedure, called autologous cell therapy, uses a small amount ...

Alka-Seltzer’s frothy fizz may hold the secret to stopping blood loss. Jets of rushing bubbles can carry blood-clotting drugs deep into a wound and seal it shut, scientists report October 2 in Science ...

Fungal communities found in chronic wounds can form mixed bacterial-fungal biofilms and can be associated with poor outcomes and longer healing times, researchers have discovered. Their report is the ...

I’ve been in the helping professions all my life and have been successful at it. My husband has been in media, attended to by everybody, due to his very successful career. We travel well, love each ...